Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use. Setting or Dataset De-identified data from 268 primary care providers participating in the Manitoba Primary Care Research Network (MaPCReN), the Manitoba network within CPCSSN.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. What does the doctor do first?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Welcome, Clinical Problem Solvers, to our first post in the “Clinical Reasoning Corner,” where we will take a deeper dive into key concepts that shape how we think through cases. The “Clinical Reasoning Corner” will provide an introduction to the topics that keep our reasoning rooted in the core principles of clinical problem solving.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g., All participants are referred to receive free produce ("standard of care").

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 17, 2025

I recently reposted a 2017 WordPress reflection on my Substack about how sometimes a disease evolves so slowly that you, as a continuity provider, barely notice it but another, covering, provider notices the subtle abnormalities and recognizes the pattern as a new disease. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature Medicine. percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs. PanDerm outperformed clinicians by 10.2

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In fact, cough accounts for one in five reasons we seek assistance from a healthcare provider. But one’s cough can provide insights for self-monitoring, and digital health advances have started to facilitate the cough-tracking process. It’s going to transform the whole clinical approach for this common and chronic symptom.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Biomarkers for drug hypersensitivity reactions show promise, but most require validation for clinical use, according to members of the EAACI Task Force. But the varied mechanisms and clinical presentations of drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) can make diagnosis and treatment challenging, and most biomarkers still require validation.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 28, 2020

The Gender Gap in Diagnostic Reasoning: The Launch of Women in Diagnosis (WDx) Smitha Ganeshan, MD MBA Acknowledgements: Sharmin Shekarchian, MD, Emma Levine, MD, and Lindsey Shipley, MD, Daniel Minter, MD Medicine has a gender problem. The challenges of being a woman in medicine resonate with my own and many others’ experiences.

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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 15, 2025

Let your provider know about any medications or recent illnesses. For skin tests , your provider will measure wheal size and note if there’s flare or erythema around the site. Whether you’re exploring options through your provider or considering an at-home kit, understanding the process is the first step.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Rapid portable assays are needed to improve diagnosis, treatment, and reduce transmission of tuberculosis (TB), but current tests are not suitable for patients in resource-limited settings with high TB burden.” Changes in assay results for serum isolated during treatment were also highly predictive of clinical response,” the authors noted.

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AMMD

JUNE 4, 2025

Whether you are managing a diagnosis of hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s, what you eat can either promote your healing or contribute to further dysfunction. Grass-fed meats provide critical nutrients such as zinc, iron, and B vitamins, all of which support thyroid hormone synthesis and conversion.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence Already, dentists employ software to get insights into clinical decision-making, but AI is changing the face of dentistry, just like it is in many other fields. For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. And there are so many such devices on the market.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. They evaluated the patients using the Dutch Lipid Clinics Network (DLCN) criteria.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A copy of the presentation was provided for those unable to attend to enhance participation in the survey. Post-hoc power analysis for appropriate versus inappropriate diagnosis and management was very low (2.7% Post-intervention data was queried from the FMRC and reviewed for any change in pattern in interpretation and management.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision. We found thirty-six difficult decisions related to medical consultation, diagnosis, treatment, and daily life.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

For the first time, the rate of autism diagnosis is higher among Black and Hispanic/Latine populations and for those from a lower socioeconomic background, although they continue to face diagnostic disparities compared with White populations. Those from marginalized backgrounds often face difficulty accessing these services.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 10, 2023

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil are using artificial intelligence (AI) and Twitter, one of the world's largest social media platforms, to try to create anxiety and depression prediction models that could in future provide signs of these disorders before clinical diagnosis.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 12, 2023

[link] In this Infectious Disease Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Jorge Salazar presents a case to Dr. Monica Gandhi of a transgender woman with a recent diagnosis of HIV presenting with fatigue and weight loss. She also serves as the medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH (“Ward 86”).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Constipation is a clinical diagnosis and does not require testing, yet as many as 70% of children who are given a diagnosis of constipation in the emergency department have an abdominal x-ray completed. The diagnosis of constipation should be made based on a good history and clinical exam.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. Anyone suffering from pain could register for the program without needing a referral or formal diagnosis from a health care practitioner. Intervention: The CPSMP is a six-week, peer-led program based on self-efficacy theory.

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PEMBlog

MAY 28, 2025

Emergency medicine providers should maintain a high index of suspicion for these entities in children and adolescents with known or suspected SLE. ED referrals are often prompted by incidental findings of proteinuria or hematuria, or clinical concerns for hypertensive encephalopathy or PRES. Rapid clinical deterioration is common.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

I’ve been with Johnson & Johnson for nearly 10 years, and prior to that was part of a clinical academic practice in the Philadelphia area and still continue to provide on a voluntary basis patient care. Some of the treatment options that are then offered to those PsA patients may or may not work.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 13, 2023

A new clinical review published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) provides an overview of the causes, diagnosis and management of endometriosis based on the latest evidence, to help clinicians and patients.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Healthcare System Preparedness (DAC-SP) aims to catalyze global healthcare system transformation, providing Alzheimer’s patients and their families quicker access to life-changing innovations and therapies. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

AI-powered screening shows promise for improving early detection of tardive dyskinesia, highlighting its potential to ease the clinical workforce burden. Early detection of [tardive dyskinesia (TD)] allows the deployment of effective interventions to mitigate morbidity,” researchers wrote in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. Mayo Clinic.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. Would I’ve been able to reason my way to his underlying diagnosis from the initial data? I’m a huge fan of the diagnostic reasoning process.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Her clinical interests include primary care and medical education. When not in the hospital and clinics, she enjoys exploring the Houston foodie scene, watching movies, enjoying all things true crime, and spending time with her husband, Tyler, and Olde English Bulldogge, Bella. Human Dx Learn more here

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

In its best use case, such technology would provide the foundation of person-level digital information systems that can be used to accurately collect and use data in at two critical levels: in real-time to improve individual patient outcomes, and aggregated to monitor the health status of a population, i.e. the big numbers.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Companies/service providers first read our reviews after publication. We’re witnessing the gradual shift from clinic-based testing to home-based diagnostics. As we await clinical validation and broader adoption, one thing is clear: the home is becoming the new frontline of healthcare. What Is BeamO?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The findings of the genome exploration study, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, provide insight into how heartbeats are regulated and could impact diagnosis and risk prediction for a variety of common arrhythmias.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A new study from investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh, finds that COVID-19 "Test to Treat" sites—clinical centers launched based on a federal initiative to provide free testing, diagnosis, and immediate access to COVID-19 (..)

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

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